Chapter 268: He who wields the divine rule!

There was an intruder in the death castle!

The Sixth Death God narrowed his eyes while trying to locate this person, but he failed to even find him. It meant that the intruder purposely left himself exposed, but also played a 'small' game with the death god.

Such a person wasn't a normal god who had some little problems…

Pushing his chair behind, Rhest stood up and called every force within his death castle. The meticulous and dangerous search began by then.

In the meantime, The First Trickster God moved around the death castle like a clown. His way of moving was too irritating as he paid no respect to this place. He also seemed like on a trip, sightseeing the new land.

"Why is the sky so green and dark? Why is the castle so silent? Bring some maids, fool! Why are these souls colored in this way? Why would humans have such a color? How are these souls even created? How lame is this death castle's beast to not notice us?"

"Shut up already…"

Zaya already missed Little Ninth whose appearance alone could shut up this clown. She looked around the castle, found its air pleasant to her nose and would comfortably follow her god if not his constant questions.

That was the first trickster god's worst feature; he was a man who constantly asked questions. His every action was filled with thousands of questions! There were even those that he had an answer for.

"Sing with me!"

"..."

"Why is the sky so green and dark?"

""""Why is the sky so green and dark?""""

Some disciples from his side joined as usual, their hands swaying from side to side as they sang. They were also copying this clownish movement. Not everyone was like that and just like Zaya, their eyes were going around to enjoy this place, but also to look out for any death god's family members.

The point of this adventure has never changed and everyone expected them to appear at some point.

Soon, one of death god's disciples appeared before them.

It was Wron.

"I found them!"

He shouted loudly, his voice reverberating through the whole death god's plane. In a short moment, every disciple appeared around him, then the master of this place landed at the front.

Rhest walked with his head high, keeping a cool aura.

"Why do all white-haired people try to act cool?"

The first trickster god laughed, then raised his finger up. They were in the death castle, one of its corridors. Thus, it was kinda cramped here, but in a moment everyone appeared in the dark green sky.

Flying was like moving for every individual here.

"The First Trickster God."

"It's me! Hey, hey, hey."

"..."

The Sixth Death God's expression distorted with annoyance as the intruder didn't sound serious at all. It was obvious and expected yet his body acted along this emotion. That was why the death god eyed the first trickster god's appearance.

It was a man in black suit that didn't look any different from common clothes.

He wore a strange mask, though. This mask was oval and covered his face from every angle. There was an emoticon on his white mask which was the most mysterious one.

It was because Rhest could easily read his emotion from this mask.

What he saw was an angered emoticon while his disciples naturally saw feared one…

"You know what kind of connection we both have, don't you? One present connected to another."

"Present…"

It was easy to connect the dots. The first trickster left the present in the heavenly palace which was the summoning method. This method got stolen by Xaya on her run without any deep meaning, but it connected to another present left in the world pillar.

The Trickster God found about Kyoya, Xaya and the sixth death god in this way.

Of course, Kyoya's dual divinity was already known by the first.

"I have no clue how that happened."

"I bet. If you had, I would be in deep trouble. Haha."

"..."

"Tell me why did you let your disciple live another life on the world pillar?"

It was hard to tell what exactly the first wanted, but it was all connected to Kyoya and Xaya. His question also was too sudden, so Rhest took a small pause before answering.

He then left the whole first trickster god's party laughing.

"What? I can do whatever I want. I am The Sixth Death God."

"Hey! Look! He is tsundere! Ahaha!"

"Hahahah!"

"..."

Though the first exposed himself with his laughing, no one took a move against him. It was a feeling hard to explain, but Rhest felt like only his senior would be able to go against such an individual.

Nonetheless, this feeling could be just created by the first as well.

It was trickster god after all.

"Tsundere, it's been a while since I have seen one. I have been pretty inactive nowadays, though. Now, I have a nice clue that I can work with. And your disappearance is crucial, Sixth."

"I have no plans of disappearing."

"So you feel like fighting with me? We just saw Little Ninth being all cool, I might as well go all cool mode too."

The first spread his arms widely. At the same time, his disciples moved forward to challenge death god's disciples into one versus one battle. The whole sky quickly became the place reserved for two gods.

One of them was laughing with his arms spread, looking too defenseless.

"You can use your guardian beast too. I will give you time to awaken it. Why am I so confident? Why am I so nice to you? Why is your disappearance so crucial? You will know answers soon enough."

"..."

"One attack. One attack is always enough to kill. I am giving you this chance, Sixth."

Amidst the first's constant laughter and silence brought by the sixth death god's seriousness, the whole death castle trembled. The beast that the first spoke about was awakening from its slumber!

It was in the far mountain that Kyoya also could see on his stay here.

The beasts' roared with thousand different tones.

"Each Death God passes one bone to the beast once his time is over. An ultimate guardian whose roar is enough to destroy heaven's first layer."

It was this powerful and could be even more, but the first just stated the origin and waved at the beast. His confidence was surreal, but Rhest didn't plan to question this god. He just ordered the beast to let its roar at the first while summoning his own power.

Black skulls began to pop off around his arm, then completely swallowed the death god.

In the meantime, the roar which looked like black-green laser, passed above Rhest's head. He entered that laser before it could strike the first trickster god. Both death powers assimilated!

It was a powerful combination of the skeleton beast whose appearance was similar to a dinosaur. Its roar became the only light in the whole death god's plane!

Within this laser, the death god teleported forward with speed that many gods would find hard to react to.

"Death… What is death actually? It's just another part of this universe. An existing power. Nothing significant."

He kept speaking even in front of such power.

The powerful roar, the death god and power that casually destroys the first layer were all going at him yet the first trickster kept boasting his knowledge. For him, this roar was slow. Death was insignificant and the whole death plane was a playground.

He tilted his head slightly, then raised his hand slowly.

BOOM!

As the roar landed on the first trickster god, the whole power stopped the time. It then exploded with more than thousand small stars, dispersing like nothing.

Rhest just glanced at his fist being held by the first trickster, then his eyes went up.

[Fear.]

An emoticon with feared eyes filled his view. There was no damage at all. Neither the trickster god's aura or his clothes got damaged by this powerful attack! A fear began to blossom within the sixth death god's heart.

The natural colors returned to the death castle by then...

"You have it all written on your face. What is this power? Is this trickster god's concept or an illusion so real that it muddles your eyes?"

The first laughed.

"It's neither of those. Since we are going to be really close right now, I don't mind telling you this."

A story from the past.

"It's said that I have broken the divine rule. I am sure you have heard of this."

Being treated like a grandson was a pain, but Rhest could say nothing to this. He just kept listening to the trickster god's words that were known by many gods nowadays.

He was an existence that went against the divine rules.

"But what kind of rule?"

"..."

A fear within Rhest's heart kept growing…

"If you asked your senior, then he wouldn't tell you. No one would as this is too huge. If gods knew about it, they would lose their whole purpose of existence."

"..."

"Am I cool? Too much and I might get too broken!"

That's why the trickster god just stopped acting cool like Little Ninth and bluntly shared the truth.

"There was only one death god in the past. The same went for other gods. One blacksmith god, one fire god… And the list could go on… I broke that."

"You… did… what…"

"I broke the rule and created more gods so that I can spit in the faces of those arrogant yet fragile pieces of shits that believe they are the strongest. Just imagine what they feel each time they see other gods with similar elements. Haha!"

He, who wields the divine rule, is immune to the gods' powers except the original ones.

No one other than the first gods can hurt him.

"Hahahahah!"

This day, The Sixth Death God disappeared along with his whole death castle and plane. The already changing times began to turn even wilder now that the trickster god found a clue to another divine rule.